Hey guys, what's up Stefanie the English coach here from englishfulltime.com and in this video
We are going to talk about why idioms aren't nearly as important as you think they are okay, so first
I just want to say that one of the most frequently asked questions that people ask me is Stefanie how can I learn more idioms and
How can I improve my vocabulary by learning more idioms or
I'm struggling to remember all the different idioms that there are in English
It's so hard, and I'm over here kind of like
why are you guys freaking out about idioms and
So I decided you know I just need to make a video for once and for all
to kind of just put this whole thing to rest
So you guys no longer have to stress out about idioms okay, but first
I just want to say that several years ago when I was teaching English online
I had this one student who I think was obsessed with learning idioms
and every day she would come to class with
literally like 20 new idioms in her vocabulary
and so when she would speak it just sounded, so
unnatural she would just be like
today, I feel like a sack of potatoes because I
Woke up at the crack of dawn
But that's because the apple doesn't fall far from the tree,
and I would just be like holy cow what?
What are you saying?
Why don't you just use normal words to say what you're trying to say
and I think that the reason why people are so obsessed
With this idea of using idioms is because they know that
native speakers use idioms and they want to sound like a native speaker
but I already made a video on how to sound like a native speaker and
that was not one of the tips that I gave okay,
so first of all stop focusing so much on idioms because
There's about like a hundred or you know, maybe two hundred
I don't know that are very common those are the idioms that you want to know the rest of the idioms are regional
Okay
regional idioms with a using specific places
Specific areas and unless you're in those areas you honestly don't need
to use to use those idioms there are idioms that they use in
Australia and in Ireland and in the uk that I don't even know exist, and I don't care about those idioms
I feel like you know the space and my brain is precious, and I do not want to occupy
Unnecessary or space I do not want to occupy space with unnecessary very information
That really really doesn't matter so learn the most common idioms,
and then stop worrying about it, okay
And then if you go travel to a place pick up some idioms while you're there sure okay?
But be careful when you use idioms because if you're using an idiom
that's extremely regional and specific to a certain location
You know the people you're speaking to might not understand what you're saying
and the goal of speaking English should be
To have clear communication okay, so just a quick example
Though or another quick example of why idioms aren't as important as you think they are
One of my good friends, I don't know where she learned her vocabulary
because we're from the same town,
But or the same you know region, but she uses all kinds of idioms that either
I have never heard before or I just don't use and I'm sometimes when she talks
I'm just kind of like I laugh in my head because I'm like
I can't believe she says that it's not bad
That's just how she talks that's natural to her but
I'm not going to start using all the idioms
she uses
Just because she uses them ok so just because you hear a native speaker use a certain idiom
Doesn't mean that you have to use that idiom okay
You want to make sure that people understand you when you speak so don't go
Stringing a whole bunch of idioms together in one sentence
nobody will understand you you won't sound like a native speaker
and you'll just sound ridiculous, okay, and
Let me think if there's anything else I can tell you guys about idioms
Okay, one last thing just don't whatever you do. Just don't waste your time
Studying these things okay there are there's a lot more important stuff
You could be studying and I have seen students
write long lists of vocabulary long lists of idioms
and I'm just like who is teaching these antiquated methods of
Learning like stop stop with the lists stop with all of that
Okay
Pick up things as you go pick up words pick up phrases pick up
Vocabulary pick up idioms as you learn them so
if you see an idiom in a TV show and you don't know what it means
go look it up in the dictionary if you really like it
then incorporate it into your vocabulary or
In and practice it, but what I tend to do when I learn Spanish
Or when I learn a new phrase in Spanish is I don't incorporate it right away into my vocabulary
I wait till I've heard something about 20 times in context sometimes
I wait til I've heard something a hundred times in
context before I actually start using it because then you
Learn how to use it as native speakers use it okay
because it's not you just might throw in idioms where they don't belong and
That it's not going to make you sound more like a native speaker
It's actually going to make you sound like you don't know what you're talking about
okay? So I hope you guys find this video helpful
Feel free to let me know in the comments what you think about this idea.
I hope you guys don't waste all your time
You know studying idioms when there's a lot of other important things
you could be studying in English, okay, take care
And we'll talk soon, bye.
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